NEW YORK — They had some kind of a forum out there in San Francisco, a meeting of the Commonwealth Club, which you’d think would have more serious matters on the docket, to discuss the possibility of the 49ers moving on down the road to Santa Clara.

As we familiar with Bay Area politics, politicians, and proper financial restraint know all too well, a new Niner stadium isn’t going to happen, at Santa Clara, San Francisco or San Luis Obispo.

In our Balkanized state, or State of Confusion if you choose, indecision and inactivity are the basic way of life. Not so here back in the Big Apple and environs.

You’ve probably heard the lament from New Yorkers that in the East everything matters and nothing works, while in moonbeam-frivolous California nothing matters and everything works. A nice generalization but absolutely incorrect, on both counts.

Something must work around here because the New York Giants and New York Jets are going to be playing in a new 82,000-seat, $1.3 billion stadium, for which a virtual groundbreaking took place Wednesday across the Hudson in New Jersey.

Two football teams sharing one stadium, to the benefit of both. A concept that requires foresight and cooperation. Which means it could never happen in Northern California. Not the way Al Davis or John York go about business.

The Niners want a new stadium, and if you’ve been in Monster Park, which to most of us still is Candlestick Park, a 47-year-old bucket of bolts and history, it’s easy to understand why. The Raiders want a new stadium, and they’re allowed to dream, although McAfee while not glamorous is at least clean and acceptable.

So, you say, why don’t the Niners and Raiders unite as the Giants and Jets, get help from the NFL and promote a place on — well, Treasure Island would be logical, but it’s awfully small — a site down the bay? Because it’s not that important in the Bay Area.

The New York/New Jersey stadium is next to the current one the teams share in the Meadowlands, called Giants Stadium, because they were there first while the Jets still played at Shea Stadium. Giants Stadium was built in 1976, which isn’t that long ago.

In attendance at ceremonies for the new one were Giants co-owner Steve Tisch and Jets chairman and CEO Woody Johnson. What chance do you think Davis and York would each show up for a similar announcement? Then again, what chance is there a stadium would be constructed in the Bay Area?

The stadium will be surrounded by 27,000 parking places. It is to open in 2010, at which time the Niners will still be trying to get funds. Hey, it’s only been 10 years since that June 1997 vote allowing the-Niners-stadium-cum-shopping-mall complex that was to replace the Stick. Can’t rush things.

Interesting isn’t it — New York and New Jersey, two places, the mention of which provoke great laughter on the Pacific Coast, are able to be productive. Californians, meanwhile, sit around and tell themselves how lucky they are to live in a place where there aren’t any hurricanes or snowstorms.

While the Niners, Raiders and even the San Diego Chargers have spent years seeking all the comforts and revenue of a modern stadium, teams in Baltimore, Indianapolis, Houston, Charlotte, Cleveland, Cincinnati and now New York have been awarded those benefits.

Somehow taxpayers in New Jersey won’t have to pay for the Giants-Jets facility, but the state will spend $300 million for infrastructure improvements, including a new station for trains from Penn Station in Manhattan, and upgrades to the New Jersey Turnpike.

The Jets, for years based at Hofstra University on Long Island, about 40 miles and two rivers east of the Meadowlands, have announced they will relocate their headquarters to New Jersey.

Through some technological hocus-pocus, the new stadium will have 400-foot-long by 40-foot-high aluminum panels behind louvers that will allow the facade to change color schemes.

For Giants home games, the wall will be blue. Then for Jets, “Gang Green,” the color of which will be as expected. “When our fans arrive,” said Johnson, the team chairman, “they’ll come to a stadium that bleeds green.”

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